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#health-service

'We need to treat each other like pariahs': Limerick intensive care doctor issues stark warning

Mar 20th 2020, 12:18 PM 41,525 53

#CORONAVIRUS
Poll: Should there be minimum sentences for anyone convicted of assaulting hospital staff?

Feb 4th 2020, 8:15 AM 27,383 53

#YOUR SAY
Staff in Irish hospitals assaulted over 1,000 times last year - but union warns it's 'tip of iceberg'

Feb 3rd 2020, 12:05 AM 11,534 17

#HEALTH SERVICE
'Affordable and transparent': HSE's new system for purchasing medicines to cost €1.3 billion

Jan 26th 2020, 6:30 AM 16,064 17

#PROCUREMENT
HSE trolley crisis: Recruitment freeze is 'starving frontline services of much-needed staff'

Updated Jan 8th 2020, 11:01 AM 13,170 18

#HEALTH SERVICE
It's the worst ever day for trolley overcrowding in Irish hospitals since records began, INMO says

Jan 6th 2020, 10:37 AM 12,879 55

#HEALTH SERVICE
The HSE has €1.4 billion more to spend on healthcare in 2020

Dec 17th 2019, 4:36 PM 11,334 32

#HEALTH SERVICE
Simon Harris 'not worried' amid speculation he could be next to face no confidence vote

Dec 10th 2019, 6:15 AM 10,990 42

#GE 2020
'We are at breaking point': Hospital doctors to be balloted for industrial action

Dec 2nd 2019, 7:12 AM 15,358 44

#IMO
Opinion: The health service will collapse if the exploitation of Ireland's carers isn't addressed

Oct 4th 2019, 9:30 PM 20,828 36

#OPINION
'They deserve better': Taoiseach apologises to patients waiting on hospital trolleys as numbers rise

Oct 1st 2019, 6:29 PM 13,151 59

#TROLLEY NUMBERS
HSE sought out experienced physios for vacant position ... then pulled job due to recruitment freeze

Jul 18th 2019, 6:00 AM 13,405 9

#NO END IN SIGHT
Psychiatric nurses begin overtime ban as Dáil hears they've been propping up services by working extra hours

Jul 11th 2019, 4:15 PM 10,984 16

#MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
Almost a billion Euro paid out in medical negligence cases since 2014, new figures show

Jul 1st 2019, 6:30 AM 11,791 21

#PAYOUTS
'Wholly unsatisfactory': Harris pressed in Dáil over recruitment freeze in the HSE

May 15th 2019, 9:38 PM 18,592 35

#THE HEALTH SERVICE
'Wasteful, inefficient, horrendous': 30,000 people waited longer than 24 hours on hospital trolleys this year

Dec 22nd 2018, 11:11 AM 8,817 45

#UNDER PRESSURE
Nurses in Dublin hospital may be told not to turn up over busy New Year period due to visa issues

Dec 18th 2018, 12:03 AM 31,345 30

#WORK PERMITS
TV presenter Brendan Courtney appointed to Sláintecare implementation council

Oct 3rd 2018, 6:05 AM 21,431 24

#HEALTH REFORM
Leo wanted the HSE to save money by re-using crutches, but was told it was a non-runner

Jul 15th 2018, 4:00 PM 43,674 98

#HSE OVERSPEND
Woman who led Temple Bar's 1990s revival chosen to lead Irish healthcare's transformation

Jul 12th 2018, 4:28 PM 32,608 29

#SLáINTECARE
There are more people on hospital waiting lists than ever before

Jun 14th 2018, 2:31 PM 7,558 39

#SINCE RECORDS BEGAN
Woman who called emergency services in France mocked by operator and died hours afterwards

May 9th 2018, 9:29 PM 51,091 15

#STRASBOURG
Q&A: Who will pay for abortions if the Eighth Amendment is repealed?

May 6th 2018, 7:45 AM 35,415 164

#THE MONEY QUESTION
CervicalCheck: Senior team sent in to ensure women told about smear reviews

Apr 27th 2018, 9:10 PM 22,380 45

#SMEAR TEST
Patients at A&E should be either admitted or discharged within six hours, not 14 - IMO chief

Apr 7th 2018, 7:30 PM 12,504 19

#WAITING TIMES
'Psychiatrist should not have used HSE headed paper to contact TDs about retaining the Eighth Amendment'

Feb 7th 2018, 7:57 PM 16,245 55

#ABORTION REFERENDUM
If you're waiting for an eye procedure there's a good chance you'll be waiting over a year

Feb 4th 2018, 1:04 PM 11,288 41

#CATARACTS
The government vowed to stop it, but 10,000 elderly people had to wait in A&E for more than a day

Jan 19th 2018, 12:05 AM 7,074 23

#TROLLEY CRISIS
'Inconceivable' that health system would be able to deal with mass casualty event

Jan 8th 2018, 9:55 AM 14,336 95

#STARK WARNING
Over 23,000 formal complaints were made to the HSE in 2016

Jan 2nd 2018, 8:06 AM 8,561 11

#HEALTH OF THE NATION
Majority of patients wait longer than six hours in an emergency department to be seen by a doctor

Dec 11th 2017, 2:37 PM 11,965 56

#PATIENT SAFETY
Susie Long's husband says 10 years after her death, people are still stuck on waiting lists

Oct 12th 2017, 10:21 AM 12,412 28

#WAITING LISTS
'It's a serial killer': Detection rates on the rise as staff become 'sepsis aware'

Sep 5th 2017, 1:29 PM 13,249 18

#INFECTION
Man ready to leave National Rehab Hospital, but HSE says there's no money to support him at home

Jun 29th 2017, 12:05 AM 34,547 29

#ILLOGICAL
'A watershed moment': TDs have come up with a plan to radically change the healthcare system

May 30th 2017, 11:15 AM 34,864 46

#IRISH NHS
Tom Clonan: 'In all our years attending Temple Street, I have never before seen so many sick children and parents'

Feb 7th 2017, 8:00 PM 498 65

#LIVING ON THE LIST
Simon Harris 'pleased to announce' Crumlin Hospital scoliosis theatre to open in April

Feb 7th 2017, 6:39 PM 26,858 161

#TIMELY
Paramedics 'disturbed' over delays bringing patients to Emergency Departments

Jan 4th 2017, 6:45 PM 23,636 101

#PERFECT STORM
Harris wants to woo Irish nurses home, but only 36 turned up on first day of recruitment drive

Dec 29th 2016, 6:29 PM 20,865 58

#HOMEWARD BOUND
Health Minister: 'I don't believe the threat of industrial action helps anyone'

Dec 28th 2016, 2:07 PM 8,197 25

#TROUBLE AHEAD